Vehicle-brake.



PATENTED AUG. 13, 1907.

G. BRENDBL. VEHICLE BRAKE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 23, 1905.

UNITED STATES GEORG BRENDEL, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

VEHIC LE BRAKE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed August 23,1905. $8Ti3l 275,349-

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Gnone BRENDEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsbiug, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inVehicle-Brakes, of which improvement the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in vehicles and brake attachmentstherefor.

The objects of my invention are to produce a fifth wheel for vehiclesand a brake mechanism therefor which can be applied to the forward axlewithout marring the appearance of the vehicle and yet furnishingsecurity and efficiency required in such appliances.

My invention is especially applicable to cabs and carriages in which itis desirable to as much as possible conceal the brake mechanism.

To accomplish these several objects, my invention consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specificallydescribed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification, in which- Figure 1. indicates an elevationof the forward axle of a vehicle, my invention being applied thereto.Fig. 2 is a vertical elevation, partly in section.

Referring to said drawings, 1 is the front axle of a vehicle, on theends of which the Wheels 2, 2, are mounted in the usual manner. At theinner sides of said wheels at the center thereof are provided disks 3,3; which are integral with the same and through which the ends of theaxle project. Immediately adjacent said disks the said axle is providedWith upwardly extending lugs 4, 4, which are suitably secured to saidaxle and in which orifices are formed in which bolts 5, 5, are securedto which the brake shoes 6, 6, are pivotally mounted, the lower ends ofsaid brake shoes being respectively connected to the outer ends of therods '7, 7, the inner ends of which are connected pivotally to the bellcranks 8, 8, which are pivotally mounted upon the ends of the lug 9,which is secured to the center of said axle. The in nor ends of saidbell cranks are secured to respectively links 10, 10, the upper ends ofwhich are connected with or secured to the vertically disposed rod 11,which projects through an orifice 12 formed in the casting 13, on whichis mounted the fifth wheel 14 of the vehicle. Springs 15, 15, aremounted upon the axle, being secured thereto by the bolts 17, andmounted upon the upper side of said springs are the transverse bars 18,to which the said casting is bolted. The forward end of the ve hicle isseemed to the transverse bars 19, which are se curely fixed to androtate with the fifth wheel, the body of the vehicle being shown indotted lines in Fig.1. The upper end of the vertically disposed rod 11,is suit ably secured to a yoke 20, which is carried by the yoke 21, thelower end of which latter is secured in the central lug 9, being asshown in the drawings pivotally connected to said lug, the upper end ofsaid yoke terminating in a cap, 22, in which a bearing is formed forthescrew which operates in a cap 23 mounted upon the yoke 20, the upper endof said screw being provided with a crank 24, by means of which it isoperated.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a vehicle, the combination with an axle, of wheels mountedthereon, each of said wheels having a disk on its inner side integraltherewith, brake-shoes pivotally mounted upon the axle, a verticallydisposed yoke connected to said axle at the center thereof, a verticallydisposed screw mounted in the upper end of said yoke, a verticallydisposed rod associated with said yoke, rods connected to said brakeshoes, links connecting said rods to said vertically disposed rod, meansconnecting said rod and said screw, and means to operate said screw.

In a vehicle, the combination with an axle, and wheels mounted thereon,of disks arranged on the inner sides of said wheels, brake shoespivotally mounted upon the axle and cooperating with said disks, averticallydisposed yoke pivotally connected to the axle, a verticallydisposed rod associated with said yoke, connections between said rod andsaid brake shoes for actuating the latter, a vertically-disposed screwarranged in the upper end of said yoke, and connections between saidscrew and said rod for actuating the latter and the brake shoes whensaid screw is operated.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

GEORG IERENDEL.

In the presence of (in-sinuses A. WILLIAMs, JAMES C. HnnnoN.

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